John Michael Talbot • Music & Teaching Ministry

Viola and I extend heartfelt Christmas blessings this year!

We have a unique experience this year visiting Viola's 93-year-old mother in the hospital, and staying with the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. We are very busy ministering the love of the Christ Child in this different than normal environment.

We are acutely aware of the Incarnation of Jesus, and our privilege of sharing His love with family and community in an incarnational way that is both tangible and mystically real. We are all called to this privileged ministry wherever we are this year. We keep both Christ and the Mass in Christmas, and extend His anointing and Eucharistic thanksgiving to everyone we meet.

Have a most blessed and holy Christmas, and a happy New Year!

In Jesus,

John Michael Talbot
Founder, Spiritual Father, and General Minister
The Brothers and Sisters of Charity at Little Portion Hermitage

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“No one bridges the two musical worlds of Catholic liturgical music and Contemporary Christian music like John Michael Talbot. Like he did with The Lord’s Supper many years ago, this new recording will bring the beauty of the mass, and the new translation of the Roman Missal, to many, many ears and hearts. Similarly, the songs are vintage John Michael Talbot: scriptural, melodic and very musical – just beautiful.”

- John Limb - Publisher, OCP - Oregon Catholic Press

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The Universal Monk is a powerful way for everyone of any state of life to find it. It is written from John Michael Talbot's experience in public international ministry and as founder and spiritual father of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity, a new integrated monastic community of celibates, singles who can marry, and families who live in an integrated monastery or in their own homes. It walks us through a treatment of the current issues that face us—such as the great recession, political polarization, and the sex abuse crises in the church—with real spiritual and lifestyle answers that come from a fully unified and integrated life in God.

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New Itinerant Ministries Planned

In the fall of 2009 we began an exciting new direction in JMT ministry! We are returning to my radical gospel roots. I am very enthused by the fruit we are seeing from this already. We are experiencing a fresh and powerful new wind of the Spirit in my ministry and community.

I want to share that enthusiasm and joy with you! Specifically this means that we are going to local regions and staying there for several weeks doing many events throughout the area. These events range from a single evening of Music, Teaching, and Contemplation, to three night missions, retreats, and teachings in a parish.